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Edmond Halley figures in the early history of the Royal Society,  an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist, known for the comet named after him, whose periodicity he accurately calculated. In 1676, Halley visited the south Atlantic island of Saint Helena and set up an observatory with a large sextant with telescopic sights to catalog star catalog of the southern hemisphere and visit astronomers in France and Italy. While there he observed a transit of Mercury across the Sun and realized that a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the absolute size of the Solar System.  In 1679, Halley published the results from his observations on St. Helena as   Catalogus Stellarum Australium  which included details of 341 southern stars.  In September 1682 he carried out a series of observations of what became known as Halley’s Comet, though his name became associated with it because of his work on its orbit and predicting its return

Instantly recognizable Northern and Southern hemispheres. The three stars of Orion's belt are easily located, even in the city. The brightest star in the constellation is called Rigel and is 40.000 times brighter than our sun. If you draw an imaginary line through Orion's Belt it will lead you to the brightest star in the night sky called Sirius. Just above the belt stands pumpkin-colored Betelgeuse (say BET‘l-juice) and just below it shines blue-white Rigel (RYE-jill). Both are super-large. Then let the belt point down and leftward to the brightest star in all the heavens. This is the Dog Star Sirius. In the Northern hemisphere, the constellation can be seen from late autumn to early spring. In the Southern hemisphere, Orion can be seen in the summer months, note that it will appear upside down. December, January, February are the warmest months in the Southern Hemisphere. The constellation is located on the celestial equator, halfway between the north and south celesti

The Zodiacal light is a rarely seen yet intriguing spectacle sky.  sun does down and the glow of sunset fades away, another glow will take its place--the Zodiacal Lights.   When you see Zodiacal Lights, you've seen the backbone of our solar system  these are the best skywatching moments for  February  2019,  band of  light extending upwards from the western horizon.  This strange glimmer in the night sky is visible after sunset or just before dawn and at certain times of the year it can be observed with the naked eye.  Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 -1712) was the first astronomer to investigate Zodiacal light and came to the conclusion in 1683 that it was of cosmic origin and not meteorological as some had previously thought.  Also  Measurements of the inner zodiacal light during the total solar eclipse of    25  February, 1952.

This astronomy calendar of celestial events contains dates for notable celestial events including moon phases, and other interesting science events. 7 planets moon sun

Meteorite Seen on Satellite GOES-EAST's Before hit Viñales, a town in Pinar del Rio so tourists in the town of Vinales say they saw a flare pass through the sky Reports as a many said that a meteor was seen in the sky across the Florida Keys," the Key West office of the National Weather Service Friday afternoon no one was injured. Pictures posted on social media show the apparent fragments from the meteorite.